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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21

ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD and
Col. S. S. Prouty left on Tuesday even ing
for the seat Of war in Kearney county.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21

RAILROAD bonds, particularly western
railway securities, are in great demand in
Wall street at present.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21

Dakota proposes to knock at the door OF
the union next winter with battering ram.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21

Justice Field is at present the only Dem
ocrat on the United States supreme bench.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21

Kansas City claims to have a population
of sos, O02.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21
THE M, Z & S. w. r. r.

A letter was received yesterday by Col
II. G. Cross from ore of the New York
directors of the Missouri, Kansas &
Southwestern railroad that arrangements
had been nearly completed for commenc-
ing work upon the line between Kansas
City and Emporia This information is
consistent with what we have heretofore
published from outside sources in regard to
letting the contract for the construction Of
| the road to this point, and, therefore, great
confidence may be placed in the statement.
| Work, under the proposition voted in
this county, must be commenced before
| the first of August next and the line COM
pleted to Emporia before the first of July,
1888. We have no doubt but the cmpany
will put the road through to this place be-
fore the expiration of the time mentioned
in the proposition. This line and the Car
bondale extension of the Union Pacific,
and also the Gulf line of the Santa Fe,
may be regarded as certain to be built to
Emporia within the next year.-Emporia
Republican.
The above roads charter names Wichita
as one of its objective points.
The Atchison Champion takes occasion
to explode the claim of Jesse Harper to the
honor Of being the man who placed Mr..
Lincoln in nomination in the national con
vention. The Champion says that Harper
was not even member of the convention.
1t was Hon Norman B. Judd who placed
Mr. Lincoln in nomination. This will re-
lieve the people of Kansas greatly, for Old
Jesse has told this story all over the state.
The Champion winds up the old man thus:
Jesse Harper is an antiquated, garrulous
old fellow. who has been wandering about
the country for the last ten or fifteen years
making Greenback speeches and taking up
collection for Jesse Harper. He may
have been one Of Mr. Lincolns old Illinois
friends, but he has devoted his tongue, for
many years past, to virulent abuse of Mr.
Lincoln's party. There is no great harm
in the old man named Harper. He is sim
ply a garrulous old chap with a bee in his
bonnet, talking an infinite deal of nothing
and picking up a living by his talk But
the humbug announcement that he ''nomi
mated Mr.. Lincoln has run long enough
TO be punctured.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
FRANCE TALKS VERY PLAINLY.
She Notifies the Powers That the Egyp-
tian Treaty VIII Not Do.

She Notifies the Powers That the Egyp-
tian Treaty VIII Not Do.
LONDON, June 27-France has notified the
powers that she has advised the sultan that
the French nation positively refuses to ac-
cept the situation that will inevitably result
from the ratification of the convention be-
tween England aud Turkey. II, however,
the sultan insists upon the ratification, France
declares that she will adopt immediate meas
ures to protect her interests, which would be
endangered by any disturbance of the equi-
librium of the Mediterranean powers. She
also offers the sultan the formal
surance of assistance from France, be
the consequences of his refusal to
ratify the obnoxious convention what they
will This course on the sultan's part, con
tinues the French communication, will
strengthen the ties of amity between France
and Turkey and will prove an efficient safe
guard to the latter from any encroachment
on the part of England.
Upon the receipt of this notice the minis
tiers were hastily summoned in council and a
note was drafted, addressed to the powers,
protesting against French interference in the
international affairs of Turkey. This COM
munication has been sent to Constantinople
for the sultan's approval.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
Reforming Civil Service Reform.

WASHINGTON CITY, June 27-The confer
ence OF the various boards of local examin-
ers of the civil service has transacted large
amount of important business, among which
was the following: Ii was decided to recon-
mend the abolition OF the age limit of 45
years for custom house INSPECTORS which Is
now enforced: to advance the age limit fuI
letter carriers from 81 to 10 years-hereto-
fore the limit of s. years was enforced against
applicants for ietfer-caITiers. excepting thost
who served in the army. the examination of
papers of applicant, Is to be performed by a
central board to re located at Washington.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

WASHINGTON CITY, June q Dr. Rey-
nolds, an examiner in the pension Office, has
been knighted by the king of Italy, receiv-
ing at the hands of Baron Fava, the Italian
minister, on Thursday, the cross OF the Royal
order of the Crown nj Italy, of which order
he was made a cheValier of the second rank
The minister stated to him that he would re-
ceiye bis patent, signed by the king, as 5000
as his name was inscribed in the golden book
of the kingdom DR.. Reynolds is citizen OF
Wisconsin and served in the war from that
state. He has been knighted IN recognition
of his contributions 10 science, and especially
his researches in relation to the aborgines
OF the Potomac and Shenandoah valleys.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

THE furry of partisan excitement which
the republican politicians are SO sPdu
lousy cultlvating over the battle flags IN
cident. renders it timely to recall the
words which Gen. Grant wrote a few
days before his death, when he was visit
ed by his old army friend, Gen. Buckner,
an officer in the confederate army twenty
five years ago and now democratic can
didate for governor of Kentucky. Here
they are: Il have witnessed since nv
sickness just what have wished to see
ever since the war-harmony and good
feeling between the sections. | have
always contended that if there had
been nobody left but the soldiers,
we would have had peace in n
year .. and. are the only two
that | know of who do not seem 10 be
satisfied on the Southern side. We have
some on ours who failed to accomplish
as much as they wished, or who did not
get warmed up to the fight until it was
all over. who have not had quite full
satisfaction. The great majority, too, OF
those who did not 90 into the war have
long since grown tired of the long CON
troversy We may now well look for>
ward to perpetual peace at home, and
a national strength that will secure us
against any foreign complication, The
Tu;tles and Fairchilds are making great
deal o. noise just now, hut they cannot
arrest the growth Of harmony and good
feeling between the two sections
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
WEEKLY BASE BALL RECORD.
How the Clubs stand in the Leagues and
AssoCiation-Spurtiuc MISCELLANY.

How the Clubs stand in the Leagues and
MISUNDERSTANDING Miscellany.
CHICAGO, June 21-The League clubs are
getting so close together. as to the four lead
ers, that a weeks playing may easily show
change in places. But two games separate
Detroit and Boston and but one Boston and
NewsYork. while Chicago is only three games
behind the latter The schedule is as fol
lows: Detroit-games won 81, games lost Ii;
Bcston-won % lost IS; New York-won IS,
lost 20: Chicago-won p lost Is; Philadel-
phia-won u, lost p; Pittsburg-won IL, lost
p. WaShmgton-won II, lost %; Indlanspo-
ls-won Il, lost a.
The American association schedule still
shows ST Louis with big lead st. Louis
games won 40, games lost Is Baltimore-won
Il. lost 10: Cincimnati-won %, lost D; Louis
ville-won 20. lost 26: Athletic-won %, lost
Do BroGklyn-won %, lost "a; Metropolitan
won Is. lost "a; Cieveland-won II. lost IS
Following is the standing of the Northwest
ern league clubs: Milwaukee-games won
70, games lost 10, Oshkosh-won "a lost Is;
Des Moines-won ~, lost 10; st. Paul-won
n, lost 8; LaCrosse-won ID, lost IS; Mime
apolis-won Il, lost Ii; Duluth--won IL, lost
~: Eau Claire-won 8, lost ..
League scores Saturday: At Chicago
Chicago 5, Boston Z at Detroit-New York
IS, Detroit s; at Indianapolis Philadelphia
10, indianapolis 5; at Pittsburg ashington
), Pittsburg 4-eleven innings
4 feature of the Chicago Boston game was
a handsome silver water service which was
brought on the ground to he presented
to the winning club. At the close of the game
the umpire turned it over to the Chicago
club.
American association - Saturday: At
Staten Island Brooklyn 2. Metropolitans 0;
at Cieyeland-St. Louis 5, Cleveland O.; at
BALTIMORE Baltimore S, Athletic ), Sunday:
At Brooklyn Brooklyn ), Athletic 4; at
Cincinnsti-Cincinnati ), Louisville I.
Northwestern league-Satrrday At Mil
waukee- Milwaukee T. Dies MONIES 0; at La
Crosse-LaCrosse 3, Oshkosh ); at Minneap-
Minneapolis 10, Eau Claire IL. Sunday:
At Observation-Disclosures 6, Des Moines z;
at Duluth-Duluth 6, st Paul 5.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

lHE pEhb1-htph Al Nt%por
gay and fashionable crowd in the grand
stand, including many of the most promi-
nent people in the city. 1t was a gay crowd
also on the stretches and elsewhere; perhaps
not SO fashionable in its character, but fully
as earnest and eager for the contests on the
days. programme The great event, the
American Derby, sweepstakes for 3year-
olds, had fifteen starters, as follows: B. C.
Goliah, b. f. Miss Ford, b. C. Jim Gore b. m.
Montrose, b. c. Cary ch- C. Terra Gotta, CHI.
C. Clarion, b. c. Libretto oh. C. c Fl. Todd,
b. C. Safe Ban, b. f. Wary, br. (. Hindoo
Rose, b. C Fenelon, b. c. White Nose, br. 6.
Brutus
Pool selling was brisk, and the bookmakers
did large business Baldwins pair, Goliah
and Miss Ford, in the pools averaged about
500 to Carey S32, Terra Gotta $50, Jim Gore
So, Montrose so, c. H. Todd $40, and field
at Sc Bookmakers were laying 3 to on
Goliah, and from that up to 50 to / On
White Nose
1t was nearly 5 O'Clock before the horses
got the word Fenelon was the first to shove
his nose across the line Carey was just after
him and Montrose followed, with the Others
in bunch Jim Gore led at the next divi-
sion, with Terra Gotta alongside, the other
horses being well up When the flyers veered
around the stretch Fenelon came to the front
and headed the field round to the straight
with Terra Gotta. c. H. Todd and Goliah in
colse proximity. 1t was soon evident that
Baldwm's Goliah was hopelessly beaten, and
also apparent that C. H. Todd was pushing
Fenelon, Terra Gotta, and Miss Ford for the
front After splendid burst of speed c. a.
Todd swept under the wire the winner by a
head of the Derby and the sum of 1890
Miss Ford was second, Wary third, Terra
Gotta fourth, Carey fifth and the others in
bunch Distance J y miles. Time 2. 361&
The mile dash was taken by Jacobin in the
fast time of ;t015-only q of a second slow
er than the record; Aurella second, Duke of
Bourbon third Eva K won the q mile in
liz, Allegheny second, Blue Eyed Belle
third Tom Uptegrove won the second "a
mile in 1:I6l4, Clay Sexton second, Drum
stick third Zuleika was the winner of the q
mile in :02ls. Winona second HuntresS
third, and Ascol took the a miles in 2;1S.
Judge Jackson second, Doctor third
New YORK, June q. At the Coney Island
Jockey club races Saturday the winners were
as follows: Bonanza, mile, l:45l4; Umpire
q mile, 1lS1s; The Bard, Ia miles, S:0S
Florence M, l :-l6 miles, 2:U2A; Brown
Duke, SO miles, 2:02; Mammonis, miles,
hurdle, 4:03
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

WASHINGTON CITY. June 27-The refusal
of Ditrict Assembly No. 81 X of L. to ac-
quiesce in Powderlys proposal to observe the
Fourth of July tittingly has raised big
breeze among the knights and the local as
semblies have protested against the District
assembly in vigorous terms and demanded
that the proper steps be taken. The
District assembly has refused and
called upon the locals to obey and the 10
Gals swear they won't At meeting of the
d. A. one member bitterly attacked the stars
and stripes, and was not called to order by
the chairman and this has intensified the
trouble The outcome Is looked for with in
terest in view of Mr. Powderly's announced
intention to crush out anarchy in the order
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

LONDON, June 27.-Rev. DIR. Parker, in the
course of his sermon Sunday, referred to the
interest shown by Americans in the queen,
and said he was astonished at its extent as
shown during the jubilee week. He knew of
one American having offered $500 for a
ticket of admission to the services in West
minister abbey. The people of America, he
said, had no state coach as an emblem of
power, but they had enthroned education, lib
erty, Independence. the spirit of progress
and energy President Cleveland, Americas
king, had just written him friendly letter.
He had not felt that there was any differ
ence of rank between the president and the
preacher. The same results as in America
were being wrought out here. Every school
beard was menace to popery and kinghood.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

Many people refuse to take cod liYeI
oil on account of it's unpleasant taste
This difficulty has been overcome in
SCOTS Emulsion of cod liver oil with
hypopbosphites. II being as paistahle as
milk, and the most valuable remedy
known for the treatment of consumption
scrofula and bronchitis, general debility
wasting diseases of children. chronic
coughs aud colds, has caused physicians
in all parts of the world to use it. Ply
sicians report our little patients take II
with pleasure. Try SCOTS Emulsion
and he convinced.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
EXAMINING THE OLD Hands.
The New Promotion Competition BATTLES
Perfectly Competent 0fiicees.


WASHINGTON CITY, June 27.-The Star
says that there is well founded report adoat
which receives credence in department cir
cles that out of thirty-eight clerks examined
for promotion in the quartermaster generals
office, but ten passed the examinations sue
eessfully. 1t is said that correct answers to
many of the questions asked would In no way
show the efficiency of the clerks, and that
these very questions, which would be easy
enough for young man or woman fresh
from school, were the greatest stumbling
! blocks TO the oldest clerks who had been pro
NOTED for efficiency, because they had given
their attention for many years to official du-
ties and not to school studies. 1t is said that
one man employed in the disbursing clerks
office made no attempt to answer the mathe-
NAUTICAL questions asked and he was always
regarded as a competent clerk and conducted
his accounts correctly.
1t is claimed that the majority of the conf
petitors were so Hurried by the realization of
| the danger of failure that they could not do
| Justice to themselves Ladies in particular
| were at disadvantage. Those who had fam
| lilies dependent upon their earnings for sup
port were so overcome with fear and nerv-
BUSINESS at the danger of being thrown out of
employment that they were made sick, and in
one or two instances tainted and had to be
| carried home
| The clerks begin to feel that there is no
doubt that the promotion examinations will
afford ample opportunity for the discharge of
all the employees whose services are to be
dispensed with at the end of the fiscal year in
accordance with law. Indeed, it is said that
the civil service commission will soon be called
upon to designate scholarly but inexperienced
persons to fill the places of tried and efficient
| clerks, who are somewhat rusty in arith-
metic and geography
| LATER-lt now appears that out of thirty
eight clerks of the quartermaster generals
| Office examined thirty five passed for promo
motion OF these it is said nearly all owed
their good fortune to markings of the
chief clerk for efficiency in office work. As
many as five persons in this examination, it
is understood, handed in the arithmetical
| questions without having answered one OF
them The first subject, Cray Dictation, y
as it is called, fioored some very competent
clerks completely.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
Carssinal Gibbons Stop, Base Ball Row

SafHihai Utbboiis stop, base Dali now
BALTIMORE, June 21-Cardinal Gibbons
drove out from Baltimore in his carriage to
st. Agnes church Sunday. On his way his
attention was drawn to a number of boys
ranging from 10 to IL years, on a waste field,
INDUCING in free tight-the outcome of a
game of base bah The cardinal told the
driver to stop, and alighting from his carriage
FASTENED to where the melee was going on
about 100 yards from the roadside-and be-
fore any of the boys noticed him, was in their
midst separating the combatants, and acting
the part of peacemaker all around He soon
had the boys quieted, and read them lecture
about desecrating the Sabbath. The cardinal
then walked slowly back to his carriage, hav-
ing re-entered which one of the boys pro
posed three cheers for his eminence which
were given with will, and the prelate smil-
ingly drove on
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
A RUNNING FIGHT WITH sMueGLERs.
Two Officers Mortaily Wounded the Rio
Grande.

EAGLE Pass, Tex, June 27-News was
brought here late Saturday night that con-
flict was in progress between smugglers and
river guards at place fifteen miles below
Piedras Negras, Mexico. A band of twenty
well-armed snugglers with a calvacade of
twenty pack mules was surprised by force
of twenty five river guards and police at that
point, and at once showed fight AT the first
yolley from the srnugglers two of the guards
fell mortally wounded and the horses of four
others were shot from under their riders.
The force of officers then beat a hasty re-
treat, and sent courier to Piedras Negras
for reinforcements. During the time thus
afforded them the sinugglers pressed forward
to the Rio Grande, eight miles distant, evil
IDENTIFY intending to cross to American terri
tory At last accounts the smugglers were
engaged in desultory skirmish with the re-
inforeed police
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

TINS seems to be season of panies.
There was the coffee panic, the wheat
panic and on Friday came panic in
stocks. The favorite theory in Wall
street of The latest excitement is said to
be that it was engineered by Gould. who
was DESTROYS of purchasing lot of
stuct cheap
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

GEN BRAGG, the Old commander of the
''lron brigade, says that the real soldiers
don't care what is done with the rebel
flags, and tells about professional vets
eran in Wisconsin who was going to
palsy his arm. or fight again, or some
thing of that kind before the flag cap
tured BY the Sixth Wisconsin from the
Third Mississippi should be returned
and, "d-n him. adds the general, "he
left the army two years before we cap
tured that flag"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
A Revolt in the Home Club. ;

New YORK, June 2,--At a meeting Of
District Assembly 40 Knight of Labor Sun
day, several measures were adopted tending
70 limit the hitherto almost despOtic power of
Master Workman Quinn and his coterie,
known as the Home club There was much
excitement during these proceedings The
board of strikes and arbitration was abol-
ished, and an executive committee appointed
to administer the affairs of the assembly
Jim Dunno. who had incurred Quinns enmity
and jealousy is now on top having led the
successful revolt
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

New YORK, June 21--Peter Mccoy, a sa-
loon-keeper at 81 Elm street, evaded the ex-
else law Sunday and as a result Is dying at
the Chambers street hospital He admitted
three young toughs to his saloon Sunday
afternoon and after they were served with
drinks a quarrel arose as to who should pay
for them Mctoy and his harkeeper finally
put the men out of the saloon. \ short time
afterward Mccoy went ont and was at once
attacked by the men and stabbed eight times
The nIlrderarS were ARE Stesi
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

THE recent real estate b0oms in west
ern towns are rivslled. and indeed ex>
ceeded by speculative craze away down
east. Mount Desert, off the coast of
Maine, the eastermost summer resort III
the country, is the scene of boom
which has so inflated values that many
sales were made during the spring at the
rate of $4,000 to 100000 an acre. and
few at $3.50 900 an acre OF rocky, sterile,
soil
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

VIRGINIA CITY, New, June 2I-Sixty
picked men are engaged driving a drift TO
the rescue of the imprisoned miners in the
Gould & Curry shaft from which gas and
smoke have ceased to issue. No signals have
been heard for some time from the impris-
oned men, but this is not considered conclu-
siveevidence that they are dead 1t will be
some hours yet before the men are reached.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

Time tried aud true is Dr. Bigelow s
cure. which combines the good qualities
of all the best cough remedies, without
promptly and permanently coughs, colds,
Group. whopping cough. influenza, broui-
chitls. hoarseness. incipient consumption.
and all throat and lung diseases, healing
the lungs. Safe and pleasant for child-
rem. Price. so cents and 81. of drug
gists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
Il AN the Marlin Luther of the nI

Il AM the Martin Luther of the Mines
teenth century" modestly observed Faith
er McGlynn to newspaper reporter the
other day. The adulaticu of the New
reverend gentleman's head 1t is not on
record anywhere that Martin Luthers
objection to the Catholic church was that
it opposed despoiling people. of their
property; neither is it known that he ever
lectured before anti~poverty societies at a
dollar for reserved seats.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27
A CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.
A Whole Family Falls on Him with Club,
Ak and Pistol.

LAUREL. Del, June 27.-Constable Joseph
T. Hastings of Little Creek, sustained criti-
cal, if not fatal injuries while attempting to
serve writ ON Grant Eskridge, of Bethel,
near. this place. ESkridgc resisted arrest and
finding himself overpowered, called for help
His mother ran out with club. The con-
stable then drew his revolver, but the mother
felied INN with the club Blow after blow
was rained upon him until he lost conscious
ness E,kridges sister then struck him with
an AK four severe blows on the back Esk-
ridge then took possession of the constable's
revolver and shot him. Hastings was discov-
cred by u friend who brought him to Laurel
The women were arrested and held i'll 5000
bail each for court E.skrIdge can not be
fQIud
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-27

LONDON, June 27.-At the ceremony of
riding the boundaries" Saturday on the
border of Nestmoreland and York counties,
the gentry of both counties came to blows
As the land owners of Westmorelaud We're
riding along beating tie boundary they en-
countered the Yorkshire people doing the
same. A dispute arose regarding the detin-
ing of certain parts. Hot words followed and
soon the sticks with which they had been
marking the boundaries were turned against
each other and bloody encounter was the
result. They continued the fight until a local
magistrate was severely injured